As a published crime writer I'm going to post what it's like to be a professional writer, the good and the bad days, writing and not writing.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

It Worked

I am writing chapter 3 from the viewpoint of the victim’s wife. She will become a main character. The homicide detectives are still there, but they’re minor characters. We don’t know anything about them, except what a reader might learn from dialogue and the main character’s observations.

This works very well for me. I’ll finish chap. 3 tomorrow and start on 4 if all goes well. I feel so much better about all of this.

5 comments:

In my new book I created a character that was meant to be merely a bystander who gives the police information. I started writing the scene from his point of view and suddenly he started to take over and has become one of the main characters.

And I couldn't be happier with that. He gives the book a certain dimension it was lacking before.

Keerdin,I'm answering you here because I can't find an email on your blog.

Thanks for your Yay! I appreciate the support. But I don't know why you think I'm writing about an amateur detective. I'm not writing about any sort of detective. Amateur detectives are my least favorite sub-genre. I don't read them and I'd never try to write one.

What I'm writing is a crime novel that now has two homicide detectives in minor roles.

Sandra,Just delurking to say congrats. I've been following your blog for a while now - I've started rereading it from the start, actually - and I'm glad to see that you're happy with how things are going on this piece now. I find that your comments are always refreshingly honest and very interesting.Cheers,Maia